Category Archives: friends

The Yule Shindig: pt.1

Posted on December 20, 2009 by K

Dec 20 How to get ready for a party. This is pretty much the only party you ever have, and it’s at Christmas, so you have plenty of leisure time to get ready.  No pressure. 1. First think to yourself, … Continue reading →

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Addicted to color

Posted on October 21, 2009 by K

           Ours is a working class neighborhood.  Nothing special.  Nothing to write home about – unless you’re making a study concerning the utter paucity of architectural aesthetic involved in tract-house design during the late nineteen seventies. … Continue reading →

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Double-dog 4

Posted on October 17, 2009 by K

I am afraid I am wearing out my welcome here with these puppy pictures.  The problem is, we keep visiting them, and they keep being so dang cute, and there you are.  I will try not to be so verbose … Continue reading →

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Double-dog 3

Posted on October 16, 2009 by K

I am a very well behaved  neighbor, and I will tell you why I say this.  I just ran across the street to see if I could raise Michelle, who I never can raise, unless she is actually outside with … Continue reading →

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Double-dog 2

Posted on October 15, 2009 by K

This is the second – or maybe third – visit to the puppies.  I took G once (just for his own edification and education), so that counts as one.  So this is the one after that.  Which makes it the … Continue reading →

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Double-dog dare ya ~ pt.1

Posted on October 14, 2009 by K

Because the Old Men are indeed old, and because I have been through dog grief before, I have been thinking of hedging my bets.  So we went to visit puppies: Mama dog.  Abby. Who gave birth to this Guinea pig. And seven … Continue reading →

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Pigs and berries

Posted on October 13, 2009 by K

            How did we already get to the middle of October?  I’m glad I already got the pumpkins, because if I hadn’t by now, I’d still be worrying about that, and still not having them.  I … Continue reading →

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Swiss Days

Posted on October 1, 2009 by K

Midway, Utah is an interesting little place.  Industrious.  Clever, ever since its beginnings.  A whole mess of Swiss people settled there in the mid 1800s, and because of the ring of gorgeous mountains that surround the place, the town was … Continue reading →

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He’ll be going round the mountain . . .

Posted on August 23, 2009 by K

M will be home, ten months from yesterday.  That was the first important thing about yesterday.  The second is that we ended up taking the colt for his FIRST LONG RIDE up the mountain.  It was a miracle of circumstance: … Continue reading →

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Frazz and the Slithering Tails

Posted on August 10, 2009 by K

On Friday, I suggested that Frazz might want to go outside and play.  We have a great yard—trees and rope swings and hills and little forests.  I had visions of myself propped up in a lawn chair with a book, … Continue reading →

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